Ximena T. Evans

• Lead a high-performing calibration team responsible for transmission calibrations controls across ICE and plug-in electric platforms.
• Execute calibration and validation strategies to ensure software performance, drivability, and quality for new and carryover GM truck and SUV programs.
• Enable self-organizing, agile teams by removing impediments, modeling GM's Core Values, and ensuring continuous improvement and career development.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, software, validation, and manufacturing to ensure calibration readiness from prototype through production.
• Manage resource planning, staffing initiatives, and headcount allocation to align with strategic program delivery milestones.
• Manage and develop multi-million dollar budget for GMs Engine and Transmission Organization.
• Drive a culture of engineering excellence, safety, and innovation by leading group meetings, strategy discussions, and technical forums.
• Support the enterprise-wide transition to new propulsion systems through calibration innovation and launch-readiness alignment.
• Developed leadership, career development, and competency-based training.

• Directed the execution of features through the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning priorities across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• ART's technical leader responsible for the ensuring GM's Global teams builds the right content at the right time
• Collaborated with customers, business owners, systems/solution architects, EPIC owners and Scrum Managers to understand the customer needs
• Managed ART capacity, metrics, and nonfunctional requirements to ensure technical alignment, execution quality, and delivery cadence.
• Actively drove process innovation, system demos, and continuous improvement forums in high-stakes calibration and embedded software environments.

• Chief of Staff for two organizations; Digital Cockpit and Automated Driving and Active Safety at GM.
• Led organizational planning for 600+ engineers across two advanced technology divisions.
• Oversaw $50M+ budget planning including capital and indirect spend, headcount, and centralized lab coordination.
• Navigated two organizational restructures, ensuring continuity and alignment of global operations and product strategies.
• Lead monthly headcount and budget forecast and reporting activities, in collaboration with Finance and HR partners for two organizations

• Responsible for executing Vehicle Integration Control Module (VICM) programs in adherence to engineering standard work including the on-time delivery of deliverables with quality for all of GMs electric vehicles.
• Successfully launched the 2023 Hummer EV and 2024 Cadillac Lyriq.
• Serve as a change agent to improve processes and drive efficiencies.
• Led the calibration integration team responsible for SW/HW synchronization for key GM vehicle lines.
• Executed launch readiness reviews, PPV release management, and supplier escalations to ensure successful program launches.
• Acted as Product Owner for Super VICM, defining vision and roadmaps while managing risks across subsystems.

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